Ukraine security service opens criminal case vs people accused of state coup attempt

KIEV, December 20. /ITAR-TASS/. The Ukrainian security service has opened a criminal case against several people accused of an attempt at the seizure of power in the country, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka said on Friday, informing the country’s lawmakers about the investigation of the forcible dispersal of the protesters overnight to November 30.

“The Ukrainian security service opened a criminal case under Article 109 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code envisaging criminal responsibility for the actions targeted at the forcible change or the overturning of the constitutional system or the seizure of power,” Pshonka said without naming those people against whom the criminal case had been opened.